Happy Sunday, everyone! Hope you’re all out there having fun. In that spirit, please enjoy this photo of four of the new millennium’s favorite sci-fi/fantasy actors goofing off in between autograph sessions at a comic-con in Philly this weekend:
The trailer for A24's upcoming horror film Hereditary features the kind of pull quotes (including one from our own A.A. Dowd’s glowing assessment) that lead audiences to wonder if it could actually be as disturbing as it sounds. Judging by the spellbound audience at SXSW, you should maybe believe the hype.
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. Because it’s still winter, this week we’re looking back on films set in very cold places.
“Everything is connected” is the motto for BBC America’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, a show that routinely puts Dirk (Samuel Barnett) at the center of a web of randomness and coincidences (or “coinkydinks”), promising that their’s a method to the madness. We asked the cast and creators of Dirk Gently if…
Elijah Wood and Samuel Barnett are the perfect odd couple as Todd and Dirk on their show Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, with Todd playing the grounded everyman to Dirk’s eccentric persona. But in real life, they’re far more alike than they are different, as evidenced by this video, where the pair agree on a…
BBC America’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is returning with its second season and a heaping dose of the supernatural. Dirk (Samuel Barnett), Todd (Elijah Wood), and Farah (Jade Eshete) will be fending off threats from the magical realm of Wendimoor, on top of dealing with government conspiracies and taking…
Hello friends. As we may already have told you once or twice, The A.V. Club is heading to television: John Teti will host The A.V. Club on Fusion beginning March 16 at 9 p.m. eastern, and the show will run weekly, hopefully forever and ever. (We’re still trying to sort out how you’ll be able to see it if your cable…
When actors make the transition from one side of the camera to the other, they often betray the influence of those who have directed them. Clint Eastwood, for one high-profile example, started his filmmaking career with a series of movies that operated a lot like those of Dirty Harry director Don Siegel. A similar…
The cast of Peter Jackson’s The Lord Of The Rings was a famously close-knit group, with the members of the Fellowship sharing plenty of inside jokes (and tattoos) accrued during their years of filming in New Zealand. It’s nice, then, to see that those bonds are still intact 15 years later, with retired hobbit Dominic…
One of the upshots of being one of Hollywood’s most prolific working actors is that you wind up touching a staggering number of people. Hence the widespread outporing of affection today for John Hurt, who died earlier this week of complications from cancer. Stars ranging from The Rock to director Terry Gilliam (and…
Much to everyone’s relief, the 33rd annual Sundance Film Festival did not commence with the winter storm of the century. Cross-country commuters prepared for a meteorological Armageddon—a blanket of white slowing our ascent into the mountains—were greeted instead by the snowfall one can always expect when driving or…
The guy living at 221B Baker Street may get all of the accolades, but he’s not the only English detective on TV. BBC America has Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, and Deadline is reporting that the network has just ordered a 10-episode second season of the comedic mystery show. Dirk Gently’s first season finale…
When Conan O’Brien settled in for an installment of “Clueless Gamer” alongside Elijah Wood he began by cracking some expected Lord Of The Rings jokes. But the proceedings took a turn for the nasty and hilarious as the two played Final Fantasy XV and became ultimately bored and befuddled. “I’ve never been this confused…
This past spring, the internet did its best to fuse diminutive lookalikes Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe into a single, blue-eyed babe. But the effort that went into that morphing GIF is precisely the kind of thing that rankles Wood (and probably Radcliffe, who must be at least somewhat similar to Wood in…
“Everything is connected.” That’s the motto of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, a mantra of interconnectedness that the new BBC America series never tires of repeating. Sometimes it makes its claim with a surprising elegance, tracing a delicate line from one bizarre, seemingly insane event to another. Other…
Back in August of 2014, Max Landis—the writer of Chronicle, American Ultra, and a lot of tweets and blog posts about what Max Landis would do if he was given control of this or that popular franchise—announced that he was starting work on a TV adaptation of Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Two…
There’s a lot to love in Cartoon Network’s Over The Garden Wall, the network’s miniseries starring Elijah Wood as a neurotic teen who loses his way in a shadowy forest with his brother. The music goes a long way toward creating the unnerving atmosphere, with riffs on upbeat Disney-esque musicals, an astounding opening…
Sure, they both starred in multi-film sagas based on popular British fantasy novels. And, yes, they both have blue eyes, slight builds, fair complexions, and floppy hair. (In fact, The A.V. Club once cast them as brothers in the imaginary movie Baby Blues.) But actors Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood are nevertheless…
Remember when John Travolta and Nicolas Cage packing heat in a genre movie was a major event? Back in the summer of 1997, the two actors—one a newly minted Oscar winner, the other still enjoying a Tarantino-abetted career revival—lent their sizable star power to one of the nuttiest, most psychologically thrilling…
This week’s question comes from reader Patrick Simpson:
